Business Leadership

Program Overview

Responsible for all the critical financial functions, processes, and services of an organization, Finance Managers must maintain a strategic mindset to ensure that the company’s assets, funds, and resources are safeguarded and most efficiently utilized. They must be able to effectively manage risks, develop financial plans, understand capital structure, maximize working capital, produce regular financial reports to management, and ensure the company’s overall profitability. They must also oversee and ensure the efficiency of end-to-end finance operations such as Accounting, Cost Accounting, Cash Management, Credit and Collection, Supplier Credit and Accounts Payable, Financial planning and analysis, balance sheet reconciliations, internal controls, and process improvement projects. 

The development of Finance Managers is crucial as they directly affect the profitability, growth, and long-term viability of the company. By joining the program, participants will understand the needed framework to drive Finance Leadership in the company for effective financial planning and strategy, management of costs and profits, and instituting business controls to safeguard company assets and resources.

Details

Program Objectives:

The building blocks approach and progression of learning themes, modules, and topics deliberately become more complex, as the participant engages co-participants, faculty, peers, and colleagues as learning partners. The program aims to: 

• Develop business acumen and leadership agility of managers 
• Deepen participants’ capabilities, competencies, management thinking to operate in an intense and challenging business environment 
• Sharpen participants’ futures thinking and leadership skills for crafting novel and innovative solutions, organizational renewal and engagement, and corporate transformation strategy. 

What You Will Learn:

• The Agile Leader in the Age of Disruption 
• Futures Thinking 
• Design Thinking and Business Model Innovation 
• Marketing in the Digital Age 
• Leading and Managing Change in the VUCA world 
• Management Excellence and Integration 

Key Benefits:

The program will challenge the participant’s leadership agility, mental toughness, management cadence, big-picture thinking, insightful learning, and collaborative attitude, as well as prime them for self-awareness, personal mastery, and transformational leadership in today’s business context. 

Who Should Attend:

The Business Leadership Program is designed for first-line, middle to upper-level managers, functional leaders and specialists, entrepreneurs, and family business owners. Managers who join the program want to develop business acumen and the ability to lead the organization in a highly competitive environment. They aim to establish themselves from functional experts to business leaders with a big picture outlook of a Business Unit Head, General Manager, or a CEO.